It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's … - Albert Shanker

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Albert Shanker

It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.

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When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.

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As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed ways of reaching every child.

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The key is that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system. As long as there are no consequences if kids or adults don't perform, as long as the discussion is not about education and student outcomes, then we're playing a game as to who has the power.

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I would rather die having spoken in my way, than live having spoken in yours

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There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

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